The second tournament of the Grand Chess Tour 2022 will take place in Warsaw from May 17-23, and consists of a rapid and a blitz tournament. Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So and Levon Aronian head the field, Vishy Anand and Jan-Krzysztof Duda are the highest-rated wildcards. The first round of the Rapid Tournament starts 19 May, […]
Monthly Archives: May 2022
Users of ChessBase are undoubtedly familiar with the Player Encyclopedia that comes with Mega Database, a massive archive of players and photos that allow you to view games with a picture of that player instead of just their name. There is an online version with ChessBase Account, but offers much more. Read the tutorial or […]
As expected, Ding Liren is the eighth participant in the Candidates Tournament 2022. The Chinese top GM replaces the suspended Sergey Karjakin as the highest-rated player after World Champion Carlsen. The Candidates Tournament begins on 17 June in Madrid and the winner will play Magnus Carlsen for the World Championship.
The world’s top two chess stars go head-to-head starting Thursday at the Chessable Masters, the fourth leg of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. Norway’s world champion Magnus Carlsen will face Ding Liren, who returns having regained his second spot in the world ranking. The field also includes two of the most promising rising stars in […]
The Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland will be held at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw on May 17-23. It will feature four full tour players and six wildcard players. The field will be headed by Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So and Levon Aronian. Vishy Anand and Jan-Krzysztof Duda are the highest-rated […]
Our discount day live stream has plenty of wonderful ChessBase guests ZOOMing in. Daniel King, Robert Ris, Sipke Ernst, Elisabeth Paehtz, Nick Pert, Svitlana Demchenko, Lawrence Trent, Karsten Mueller, Markus Ragger, and Andrew Martin will join the host, Arne Kaehler, and share their Fritztrainer knowledge with you. Larry Kaufman, and Mark Lefler will talk about […]
Discount Day 2022 begins on Monday, May 16 at 4:00 p.m. and ends on Wednesday, May 18 at 10.00 a.m. CEST (midnight in California). We are offering you a 25% discount on all our products. That includes software, training DVDs, services, the ChessBase Account. And there are some very interesting new products that are being […]
Midsummer is traditionally the time of the Dortmund Chess Days. After last year’s relaunch, the festival will be expanded this year with, among other things, a large international open. At the weekend, the pairings have been drawn, which also means that the schedule is fixed. It all starts on 17 July. | Photos: Dortmunder Schachtage
One of the fascinating aspects of new iterations of tablebases is submitting known positions to their ‘divine’ evaluation. The words “better” or “worse” cease to have any meaning and not only are all evaluations perfect and absolute, but so are the solutions. In the following article a share of cooks of studies as well as […]
Unashamed ultra-violence. Jon Speelman continues to share findings from his bookshelf, and today explores Irving Chernev’s “The 1000 best short games of chess”, a collection of miniatures first published in 1955. Speelman adds notes to selected games from the collection of thud and blunder.